Though Joseph Henry earned his fame as the first director of the Smithsonian Institute, he was in many ways the telephone's first and best advocate. Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when he ...

Phones are integral to the everyday lives of most people, but who should be regarded as the device's mastermind? The Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell is routinely credited as the inventor of the ...

The telephone came to Carroll County in 1884, only eight years after Alexander Graham Bell was granted his second patent on March 7, 1876 – four days after his 29th birthday. President Rutherford B.

Not long after Alexander Graham Bell received a United States patent in 1877 for what we now know as the telephone, it became clear that this device would prove very useful, both for business and even ...

First Phone in the World: The first phone in the world was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. This groundbreaking invention allowed human voice to travel through electrical signals for the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. Later that day, Bell wrote to his father (as Edwin S. Grosvenor ...

The Vancouver Barracks received Clark County’s first telephone in October 1878, connecting the arsenal to headquarters. Soon two more phones were installed. In 1879, soldiers strung the first ...

On this day 107 years ago in 1915, the first transcontinental telephone call was made between New York City and San Francisco. The call was part of an advertising campaign by the American Telephone ...